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<jorendorff> ehsan: how's that
<jorendorff> where that = the new push
<ehsan> jorendorff: awesome, thanks
<jorendorff> k
<ehsan> jorendorff: you just assigned to |that| ;)
<jorendorff> the scoping rules for "this" are even more confusing in english than they are in js
<ehsan> yeah, the designers of english were a lot less careful with that stuff
<khuey> that's saying something
<ehsan> they let all sorts of ambiguities and stupidness in their language
<dcamp> english was written using luck-driven development techniques
<ehsan> that's why english is so slow to interpret
<khuey> clearly english needs a refactoring
<joe> let's give brendan 2 weeks to design a new language for us to use